Speed Skating News - 2010 Winter Olympics

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13 Mar 2010 4:47 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Jeremy Wotherspoon announces his retirement

Long track speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon announced his retirement Saturday, ending a remarkable career that is considered one of the best in the sport's history.

13 Mar 2010 4:44 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Groves takes 1,500m title over Nesbitt

Kristina Groves won the women's 1,500m long-track event in the Netherlands and with it, clinched the overall title ahead of fellow Canadian Christine Nesbitt.

12 Mar 2010 4:27 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Jeremy Wotherspoon to announce retirement Saturday

Canadian speedskating star Jeremy Wotherspoon will announce his retirement from the sport on Saturday. His plans were confirmed by his coach, Michael Crowe.

11 Mar 2010 4:48 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Speed skaters gear up for remaining 2 events

The first of the season's two remaining long track speed skating events opens Friday in the Netherlands with the Canadian team focused as much on the start of a new Olympic cycle as on finishing strong.

02 Mar 2010 3:53 AM

Long Track Speed Skating: Canadian Heroes - Christine Nesbitt

Four years ago in Turin, Christine Nesbitt wasn't expected to contend in the 1,000m. In Vancouver, she was expected to walk away with the gold medal. A sign of how fast she had progressed on the Canadian team.

02 Mar 2010 2:55 AM

Long Track Speed Skating: Canadian Heroes - Men's Team Pursuit

Skating against the U.S in the gold-medal race, the Canadian team brought out their secret weapon - a tactic called The Push, which was kept under wraps for three years in preparation for Vancouver.

02 Mar 2010 2:33 AM

Long Track Speed Skating: Canadian Heroes - Clara Hughes

Clara Hughes has always saved her best races for when it counts the most. So it was fitting that her last turn around an Olympic oval would be one of the most thrilling moments of the Vancouver Games.

02 Mar 2010 1:50 AM

Long Track Speed Skating: Canadian Heroes - Kristina Groves

When Kristina Groves is in top form, it shows in her eyes. When she took to the starting line for the women's 3,000m race, coach Xiuli Wang could not help but smile. There it was, that look.

28 Feb 2010 9:48 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Looking ahead to Sochi 2014

Most of the gold medalists that skated at the Richmond Olympic Oval these past two weeks are expected to return for the next Games in Sochi 2014. But for some Canadians, the Vancouver Winter Games was their swan song.

28 Feb 2010 7:25 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Memories: Expect strange things to happen

Whenever there was an upset or a shocking result, the explanation was always that it's just the Olympics. Expect strange things to happen. But even those words could not do justice to what happened in the 10,000m.

27 Feb 2010 11:34 PM

Long Track Speed Skating: Germany's Friesinger puts best foot forward

After losing her balance in the semi-final race of the women's team pursuit in Richmond, B.C., Saturday, German speed skater Anna Friesinger-Postma slid the final 25 metres on her stomach.

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